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- ArabianNews wrote:
The GCC may ban Filipinos from coming to the Gulf to work due to regulations passed by the Southeast Asian country’s government aimed at improving the standard of living for its citizens working in the region.
The GCC Committee for Importing Foreign Workers yesterday unanimously agreed to stop importing Filipinos until their government's labour laws have been clarified.
“Participants agreed to submit this recommendation [to stop importing Filipinos] to the decision-makers in the GCC and expressed hope that this recommendation would be implemented as soon as possible,” Abdel-Aziz Al-Ali, the head of Kuwait's domestic labour offices, told the Kuwait News Agency.
“We understand the important international implications of this issue and we are dealing with it accordingly,” Al-Ali said.
The new regulations, passed in December last year, require GCC employers to pay a minimum salary of $400 a month to any Filipino working as domestic help – double the previous minimum salary of $200.
Employers are also required to sign a declaration stipulating that they will pay a daily fine of around $13 if they do not pay workers on time.
The minimum salary regulations are not binding on any of the GCC’s six member states, but if employers do not agree to them then the Filipino government will not process their staff’s contracts.
Asaad Derbas, head of the Kuwaiti delegation to the meeting of the Committee for Importing Foreign Workers, told the Kuwait News Agency the decision to stop importing Filipinos was taken because the country’s government used the issue as a political tool in its recent general election.
He said the issue had a negative impact on the countries importing Filipino workers.
There are around 2 million Filipinos working in the Middle East.
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Your thoughts?
^ian^
My thoughts are I was pretty sure this would happen and said as much to the effect in another thread.
gtmash
So some rich folks will have to do their own dishes. Awesome.
LA
Yeah, that's indeed awesome. But what about the many workers from India? (:
Concord
- LA wrote:
Yeah, that's indeed awesome. But what about the many workers from India? (:
Nothing. They are not Phillipinos!
Habibi
- Concord wrote:
- LA wrote:
Yeah, that's indeed awesome. But what about the many workers from India? (:
Nothing. They are not Phillipinos!
What a dry response :wink:
jabbajabba
"Asaad Derbas, head of the Kuwaiti delegation to the meeting of the Committee for Importing Foreign Workers, told the Kuwait News Agency the decision to stop importing Filipinos was taken because the country’s government used the issue as a political tool in its recent general election."
What is that about? A party wins an election based on a policy to insure a more secure infrastructure for its overseas workers - and now they deliver! Is not every political decision no more then a political tool?
Fact it is the decision was made out of greed and love of large profit margins from exploitation of cheap labour - nothing else.
HP
The GCC may ban [color=red]
Russian Prostitues [/color] from coming to the Gulf to work due to regulations passed by the Russian aimed at improving the standard of sex for its citizens working as prostitutes in the region.
The GCC Committee for [color=red]
Importing Russian Prostitutes [/color]Workers yesterday unanimously agreed to stop importing Russian girls until their government's Prostitutes laws have been clarified.
The new regulations, passed in December last year, require all
[color=red]lovers[/color] to pay a minimum of $200 per hour .
jabbajabba
HP - you certainly know how to push the boat out mate.
njg123
Hooray for the Phillippine government for looking after workers who travel overseas. Filipinos are very hard-working people who have to travel half way around the world to work in very difficult surroundings and then have to beg and plead with their employers to get paid for their work. Most of this money is then sent back to their families in the Phillippines. $400 dollars per month works out to a mere USD $4800 yearly salary. Not exactly a fortune.
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